Down time?

Schneider regional will net you at least a 34 at home. You’re going to be running your ### off for the days they have you. And they will try to squeeze the full 70 out of you if at all possible.

I know a few of their regional drivers. And from what I’ve gathered, they run in circles 5 maybe 6 days before they get home.

 

I don't see many day traders in here.

Not with the $25G minimum requirement.

 

Eventually you will fall into a routine that works for you. At the end of my day I pull into the fuel island fill up the truck , def and the reefer. Then I find a spot and park it. Do a post trip then go off duty for ten hours. Take a shower then eat dinner. Listen to the ballgame on the radio then watch a movie. Go to sleep around 830 pm. Get up 330am go on duty pre trip. Go off duty get a coffee. Go on duty start driving. Rinse repeat all week.

 

@Dragonheart - intially there won't be a whole lot of extra time at the end of day as it will take you FOREVER to do anything. As you get better at trip planning, coupling/pretriping, etc you will find you have more time, so having a nice laptop is useful.

If SNI hired you on a 5/2, then that is what it is. You WILL get home late from time to time. Most of the time when I am late it is not Schneider's DIRECT fault. Last time I was late it was because I had to go back TWICE to get reworked. If you do get home late, you do NOT have to go out at the usual time. If you are supposed to be home Friday, and you get home noon on Saturday , I might not head out until Tuesday if I had stuff to do. You can also control the time of day you are running by setting your NAT. You don't get dispatched off of you log book, but rather YOU tell Schneider when YOU will be ready for the next load, and how much on the 11/14/70 you will have. You may have 3/5/45, but I might only show 2/3/45 if I don't want to run my full clocks that day.

I run regional, and have a varying TAH schedule - so I go home when I darn well please. So far this year I worked an avergae of 5.35 days per work - and some of those were short days into the house (tomorrow I have 5 hours of work before going home).

You WILL get more than 750 miles from home - generally early in the week. Just remember if they send you out, they have to get you back, so you will get the miles that week.

I ran from 1400 last Friday until today, running recaps and put up 2,900 paid miles, with 3 short haul loads, and 6 units of detention pay, only one day longer than 12 consecutive hours and that day I spent 8 hours in a dock. So miles/money is there if you run smart and hustle a little.

Trucks since 2016 have a 1500 watt inverter, otherwose you are limited to 180 watts running off a cigarette plug. Get a colman plug in cooler and learn to eat inside the truck (lots of good threads here). Make sure you have a good data plan.

 

Do you do this? I thought to be a true day trader you had to be an accredited investor with at least 250k in assets. At least that's what my broker told me

 

I used to do it, but now my wife does it. I was doing pretty good at the time. The wife can make a couple of hundred almost any day, but her best week was $10,000.00
Don't remember the name now, because it's been a few years, but I opened an account for her with $600.00 and that's was her start. That was when she first came to the USA. I did that to keep her busy while I was on the road and she loved it.
The $10K she made one week was on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock exchange.

 

If you are flagged as a day trader, you must keep $25,000 in the account.

As long as you don't complete 5 "roundtrips" - buy and sell within 24 hours - in a 5 day period, you can avoid the flag.

 

Find another local job. Don’t mess with regional or any of the big carriers. You can find a better schedule than 2a-4p. Regional means you’re closer to home than an otr driver, not that you spend more time there.

Your weekends can very simply be 34 hours and that’s it. You are required to leave at that 34 hour mark. Your miles can be hit and miss, some good weeks and some bad weeks.

I would find an hourly paid posistion with ot after 40, or if your really lucky find one with ot after 8. You have a family you obviously care about and don’t want to miss. Local line haul or distribution for a private carrier is your best bet.

If you have hazmat the local gas company could be a score. Keen, Air Gas, ect... Construction supply, probably work 5-3 every day. Septic in a T/T, would be pretty simple might even just run water.

I feel you on the overnights tho...i did them for a long time, they wear you down. I would wake up at 8pm every night. Sunday was a day off, but i had to work Sunday night. It was tuff.